Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> They should be renamed to DEFINE_* while we're there.  A "declaration" is
> "this thing is defined somewhere else".  A "definition" is "this thing is
> defined here".

Yeah, I confuse the two. Although by now I've gotten so used to DECLARE_ 
that at least me personally I like it. 

> > I wouldn't be adverse to doing that
> 
> argh.

Heh. At least there's only 310 DECLARE_MUTEX* references in the whole 
kernel. So we're not actually talking about a huge patch. 

It's also fairly simple to work with in out-of-tree drivers, since it's 
always bound to be a #define, so you can do things like

	#ifndef DECLARE_SEM_MUTEX
	#define DECLARE_SEM_MUTEX(x) DECLARE_MUTEX(x)
	#endif

or something.

		Linus
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